Staff Officer Accountant - Finance Business Partner

Staff Officer Accountant- Department For Communities, Housing Finance BranchLocation:Causeway Exchange, 1-7 Bedford Street, Belfast, BT2 7EG
Hourly Rate: £24.04-£25.01 per hour (£41,272 annually)
Contract:Temporary (12 months+) which will open the doors to putting yourself forward for the permanent external competitions coming up in the NICS with the help of your line manager and team
Hours: 37 per week Monday-Friday Flexible start and finish times
Working Pattern:Hybrid - 2 days in office / 3 days from home
Flexibility:Flexi-time available
Your new companyThe role of the Housing Finance Business Partner is to provide advice and support for the financial oversight of the NIHE as part of DfC's sponsorship responsibilities. This includes, but is not limited to, commissioning and reviewing financial returns, analysing budgets and expenditure, reviewing NIHE papers and business cases, preparing monthly management reporting, and drafting responses for briefings and Assembly information requests.
Your new roleThe key duties and responsibilities of this post include but are not restricted to the following:
• Provide in-year budget management and monitoring, including preparation of monthly reports for the HSG senior management team and input to the monthly Departmental Management Board Stewardship Report.• Prepare the HSG (NIHE) monthly Outturn Forecast Outturn return and HSG (NIHE) Monitoring Round returns.• Engage and work alongside budgeting & accounts colleagues, NIHE finance, Central Budgeting, and other stakeholders to ensure value for money in the use of DfC resource and capital budgets.• Business case review as part of the Five Case Model business case approach.• Review and appraisal, the NIHE Budget Submission.• Review and provide comments on information included by NIHE in board papers, monthly performance meeting papers etc.• Review and appraisal of NIHE Pay Remits.• Manage the NIHE monthly Cash Drawdown.• Review of NIHE consolatory payments, losses and write off cases.• Assist with external and internal audit queries, Assembly Questions, NIHE Accountability updates. and Freedom of Information requests as required.• Attending meetings and deputising as required.• Other ad hoc finance returns and duties.This list is not exhaustive.
What you'll need to succeed
The candidate must be a professionally qualified accountant and have at least one year's experience gained in the last five years, in a finance related environment, in one or more areas detailed below:
a. financial planning and budgeting;b. financial accounting/auditing;c. forensic accounting/insolvency-related work;d. management accounting and cost analysis;e. investment finance;f. treasury management; and/org. development/implementation of financial systems."

What you'll get in return